Muslim and Jewish Women in Nazareth

'We can live in peace'...John Lennon (photo: Dafna Tal)

Mahzor

Mahzor

New York Public Library

Churches

Sarajevo Haggadah

Mah Nishtanah

Sarajevo haggadah

Antaea Darom

Israeli women's art

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Torah as music

Ben Heine

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ceramic bowl

Mohammad Said Kalash, "Offering Reconciliation" exhibit (photo: Ilan Amihai)

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Punch and Judy/Pinchas and Jamila

Avi Katz

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David Grossman

Ben Heine

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Eldrige Street shul

Lower East Side

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Dove

Ben Heine

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Two birds

Hoda Jamal

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Israeli and Palestinian boys

from documentary, Promises

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Cat in the Hat

Yiddish version

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Daylight through the Wall

Banksy: graffiti art on Separation Wall

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Maurice Sendak's Brundibar set

New Victory Theater (photo: Nan Melville/NYT)

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Daniel Barenboim, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Palestinian-Israeli musical ensemble (photo: Kerstin Joensson/AP)

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Great Day on Eldrige Street

N.Y.'s klezmer greats celebrate shul rededication (photo: Leo Sorel)

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Israeli General: Policy Towards Lebanon, Syria ‘A Little Delusional’

Jul 18th, 2006 by Richard Silverstein | 3

In the midst of madness, when Israeli leaders have become bereft of strategic sense and obtuse to the suffering of their own and the Lebanese people, all I can say is thank God for news sources like Haaretz which allow sane Israeli analysts to speak out against the utter futility of current Israeli policy. [...]

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Condi Rice on Lebanon: “A Little More War Please”

Jul 16th, 2006 by Richard Silverstein | 8

Condi Rice continues the Bush Administration’s querulous non-responsive policy toward the Israel-Lebanon conflict:
Israel may need to prolong its offensive in Lebanon to further reduce the threat from Hezbollah, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today…
Ms. Rice appeared to support a longer-term Israeli effort to inflict decisive damage to Hezbollah’s presence in Lebanon. She also said [...]

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Nine Israeli Dead as Hezbollah Katyushas Hit Haifa–Tel Aviv Next?

Jul 16th, 2006 by Richard Silverstein | 3

First it was a bold guerrilla strike against IDF forces resulting in eight dead and two kidnapped soldiers. Then, yesterday saw the rocketing of an Israeli ship resulting in four dead sailors. Today, Hezbollah continues to ratchet up the pressure as it rained Katyushas down on Haifa (which had never been hit before [...]

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Hezbollah Hit Israeli Ship With Advanced Iranian-Chinese Missile

Jul 15th, 2006 by Richard Silverstein | 4

Yesterday’s report that a Hezbollah drone loaded with explosives hit an Israeli ship blockading the Lebanon coast turns out to have been wrong. The news is more troubling than that. Haaretz reports that the ship was actually attacked by a Chinese missile never seen before in the Israeli-Arab conflict:
Chinese C802 missile of the [...]

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Conflagration in Middle East as Israel Attacks Lebanon

Jul 14th, 2006 by Richard Silverstein | 10

3 year-old Natan Mor calling out for his father, who sustained serious injuries during the Katyusha rocket assault on northern Israel (photo: Rina Castelnuovo/NYT)
Latest news: Haaretz reports that an Israeli grandmother and her five-year old grandson were killed and four others injured by Hezbollah rockets which landed in Moshav Meron on Friday evening. Ha-makom [...]

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